It may appear surprising that the spectacular abduction by the United States of Nicolás Maduro – a flagrant violation of the United Nations Charter – has unleashed only the faintest of financial shockwaves. Not only did markets easily absorb this event, they immediately wanted to know what would happen next. There has been no massive flight to safe assets, no financial dislocation, no lasting pressure on...

Il peut sembler surprenant que l’enlèvement spectaculaire de N. Maduro par les États-Unis, transgression assumée des règles de la Charte des Nations-unies, n’ait guère déclenché d’onde de choc financière. Les marchés ont non seulement facilement absorbé l’événement, mais se sont immédiatement demandé quelle allait être la suite. Il n’y a donc pas eu de fuite massive vers les valeurs refuges, pas de...

Public opinion has always been one of the battlefields in power struggles. Now, though, thanks to a combination of geopolitical uncertainty and the "infobesity" (information overload) of what Joseph Nye called the Information Age, the role of public opinion is strategically more important. Who gets to decide who the enemy is? Governments or public opinion? The Global North or the Global South? Who will...